The annual Farm Safety Camp is once again coming together for 2018. The many agricultural and safety oriented businesses of both Wilkes and Lincoln counties have worked together in order to sponsor a fun camp for children that will also instruc More...

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After an appointment at the auto service center, a woman told her husband she had been worried the mechanic might try to rip her off. “I was so relieved,” she said, “when he told me all I needed was turn signal fluid.” More...

WASHINGTON – This town of just over 4,000 can be a delightful destination, but for most travelers, it is a peaceful community which sits quietly on the south side of the north by-pass, offering to one and all, genuine hospitality along with a l More...

Funeral services for Ellyn Jones Bunch, 95, of Delhi Road in Tignall were held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 16, 2018, at Beulah Baptist Church. Interment followed in the church cemetery. She died Saturday, April 14, 2018, at her residence. More...

Funeral services for Hazel Price, 80, of Washington will be held at noon on Friday, April 20, 2018, at White Rock Church on Beaverdam Road in Washington with Rev. Charlie Maddox officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. More...

The Wilkes County Board of Commissioners will meet at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, at the ­Wilkes County courthouse. A work session in the chairman’s office will be held immediately prior beginning at 5 p.m. . More...

The Wilkes County Board of Commissioners gave the go-ahead for work to be done on Baston Trailer Park Road construction and utility reconstruction after an almost three-year delay due to bidding complications. More...

The Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School junior class will present “A Night in Paris,” as the theme for the 2018 prom set for this Saturday, April 21, from 7 p.m. until midnight, at The Pope Center in Washington. More...

Washington-Wilkes Primary School physical education teacher Terrence Pendleton recently sponsored the “Jump Rope for Heart” program at the school during which all students in kindergarten through the third grade learned jump rope skills a More...

On Saturday, May 5, the Washington Wilkes Chapter Sons of the American Revolution will have two official grave-marking ceremonies honoring Revolutionary War patriots John Callaway and Owen Fluker. More...

Local results from Wilkes County athletes at Fort Gordon’s Area 9 Special Olympics include: W-WES – Lindsey Pruitt, first in 50-meter dash and second in shot put. Deonte Ardister, second in shot put and first in 100-meter run. More...

Jesus’ special Revelation is to the seven churches which are in Asia. I believe we can say these seven churches represent al l of the churches of Jesus Christ over the entire period of time of Jesus’ ministry on Earth. More...

Sarah Davis of Washington and Ted Bingham of Harlem exchanged wedding vows in a double-ring ceremony Saturday, March 17, at two o’clock in the afternoon at Louisa United Methodist Church in Franklin, N.C. Rev. More...